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Home Features Entertainment Recreation Events Arts Dining	Touring Coldstream Canyon by Snowmobile In its 15th season in the Northern Sierra’s Coldstream Canyon, Cold Stream Adventures offers a wide assortment of snowmobiling options suited for everyone from the beginner to advanced rider. (more)
	Sierra Stories: Downhill Ski Racing Homegrown There is little documentation of ski racing in California before 1859, but there is anecdotal evidence that the sport was under way. In 1859, a United States Geological Survey party published an interview with the legendary skiing Sierra mailman John “Snowshoe” Thompson where he challenged all comers to race him. There also is a newspaper article from that same year reporting on ski races at the Monte Cristo Mine in Sierra County, north of Truckee. (more)



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